Will Emirates become a 5-Star Airline?

[Gunnar Smithsen]

something which made me curious and took my attention is the recent tail strike incident with the EK plane in Melbourne, which turns out could have been way worse..... and I quote

THE pilots -- who are not Australians -- were interviewed by investigators the day after the crash, but have now left Australia and have resigned from Emirates.

resigned ?? hmmm sounds a bit suspicious to me... link below if further reading required

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...7-2862,00.html

*cough*ahem*cough* *cough*BUMP*cough*

Aircraft is now en-route back to TLS via PER/DPS/SIN/DXB, scheduled to depart PER today approx 0900 local time, flying at FL100.

[jadivindra]

10 abreast onT7

How many other airlines do you know that uses that config on their 777? 5 star?

[bryan_sq]

something which made me curious and took my attention is the recent tail strike incident with the EK plane in Melbourne, which turns out could have been way worse..... and I quote

THE pilots -- who are not Australians -- were interviewed by investigators the day after the crash, but have now left Australia and have resigned from Emirates.

resigned ?? hmmm sounds a bit suspicious to me... link below if further reading required

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...7-2862,00.html

[SQ_SIA]

EK can emulate Singapore Airlines but they will never succeed in triumphing and beating a legacy global premier airline like SIA. Thats something that they need to understand, yes you have the money to stick showers in the planes and the money to buy huge amount of planes, but its useless when your internal customer service is inconsistent. EK is imo a gimmick airline.

[mec]

I once said in A.net:

There's some things money can't buy. For everything else, there is Emirates Airlines.

EK can spend a fortune on hardware, but it takes much more than just money to get the software.

Well said!

sailaway75 and I did 4 sectors on EK recently .......we were only impressed with their IFE and their extravagance on certain other things like miles

[huaiwei]

I once said in A.net:

There's some things money can't buy. For everything else, there is Emirates Airlines.

EK can spend a fortune on hardware, but it takes much more than just money to get the software.

[B727]

Emirates has the potential to be a true 5-star Airline, for the moment it can hold on to the "starry star" airline moniker with its onboard lighting simulating a night skyline filled with stars (like a flight in the Arabian nights!) and the warm glow of sunrise/sunset

[Kyo]

I see the unknown item I had that pretended to be a hamburger was not served on your flight...

[taipeiflyer]

I was about to start a thread with the title "What's preventing Vietnam Airlines becoming a 1-Star Airline", but you just took that opportunity away, HUGE AL.

For shame.

i took vietnam air from tpe to hcmc and onto siem reap and i was happy as a clam in economy. true, their chardonnay tasted like it had been spiked with popov's vodka, but the service wasn't bad, the place was new, and i got to my destination without delay. i would definitely fly them again over several other airlines.

[jhm]

Here's another reason (if you wanted any more) to avoid EK:

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...strike-ml.html

[s7r0ng3r]

Dude, are you seriously going to run through all the airlines with a thread title like this one???

I think this'll be my last

[Kyo]

Which is why I'm surprised at what's standing in between where they are now and the holy grail!

[jhm]

I was about to start a thread with the title "What's preventing Vietnam Airlines becoming a 1-Star Airline", but you just took that opportunity away, HUGE AL.

Do catch up! They're actually already a 3-Star Airline!

[Kyo]

Dude, are you seriously going to run through all the airlines with a thread title like this one???

Should we revive THE DISCUSSION???

And just when I thought The Board was calming down to more relevant topics...

I was about to start a thread with the title "What's preventing Vietnam Airlines becoming a 1-Star Airline", but you just took that opportunity away, HUGE AL.

For shame.

[MAN Flyer]

Dude, are you seriously going to run through all the airlines with a thread title like this one???

Nope, this will be the last one.

There are other websites out there where there are lots and lots of threads like this, and the OP would be better off joining in one of the zillions that are readily available over there.